Intel Atom N470 Processor Gets Official

Intel has officially announced their latest processor in their Atom range, which is designed to be used in netbooks and nettop PCs, the Intel Atom N470.

The Intel Atom N460 is faster than the popular N450 processor, with a clock speed of 1.83GHz and it comes with 512KB of L2 Cache, it also supports DDR2 667 RAM.

According to Intel the new Atom processor is more efficient than previous models, and it will give increased battery life to netbooks, although the clock speed is faster than previous models.

The Intel Atom N470 also features integrated graphics, which is designed to provide a performance boost. There are no details as yet on when we are likely to see Intel’s latest Atom processor in a range of new netbooks and nettop PCs, although I am sure it won’t be long before manufacturers stat using this new processor.